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Chayakkada Chats
by R Ramakumar
In this podcast series, I intend to have freewheeling conversations with friends and experts in multiple fields.
Episodes
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Why should Covid19 vaccines be exempted from IPRs? with Dr Arjun Jayadev
There is a major debate over intellectual property rights and life-saving medicines, particularly Covid19 vaccines. One year has passed since the pandemic broke out. On the one hand, we have only a handful of vaccines. On the other hand, more than 80% of the world’s vaccines have gone to people…
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On the Second Wave of Covid-19 Infections in India, with Dr T. Sundararaman
Welcome to Episode number 9 at Chayakkada Chats. Just as everyone thought that the Covid crisis was on the ebb, a second wave of infections has spread across large parts of the world. India has been no exception. As of today, we record more than 200,000 infections every day with the total number…
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The Political Message from the Bolivian Elections of 2020, with Sonya Surabhi Gupta
Last week, in a historic event, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), the party of Evo Morales, was returned to power by the people of Bolivia. Evo Morales was the President of Bolivia from 2006 till 2019. In October 2019, though he had conclusively won the elections, he was forced to flee the...
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Talking about Hathras, rape and caste: With Subhashini Ali
On 14 September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped in the Hathras district of the Uttar Pradesh State in India, allegedly by four upper caste men. After fighting for her life for two weeks, she died in a hospital in Delhi. No arrests were made in the first 10 days after the incident...
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Randomised Control Trials in Economics: Credibility Revolution or Crisis? With Sanjay Reddy
Welcome to Episode 6 at Chayakkada Chats. Today, we will speak about the use of randomised control trials or RCTs in economics. In 2019, the Nobel Committee awarded the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019” to three economists – Abhijit Banerjee, Esther…
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Economics and it's Foundational Dilemmas: with J. Mohan Rao, Economist
Today, we speak about the future of economics as a subject in a post-Covid world with Dr J. Mohan Rao, a renowned economist. In this conversation, Mohan talks to me about his long journey in economics as a researcher and teacher, and the way he has seen the subject of economics evolving. He…
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Kerala and the "Room for the River" Project in the Netherlands: with Paul van Meel
We all remember the heavy floods that the state of Kerala in India experienced in 2018 and another relatively milder one in 2019. This year too, Kerala has witnessed heavy rainfall and some extreme rainfall events. One of the regions in Kerala acutely affected by the floods is the Kuttanad region...
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Landslides in Kerala: The Scientific View, with Dr K. P. Sudheer, Principal Secretary for S&T, GoK
The last week saw a number of landslides being reported from the Western Ghat region of Kerala, the most significant of them from the Pettimudi region of the Idukki district. Pettimudi is not far from the tourist hotspot of Munnar. The death toll in Pettimudi itself is likely to cross 50. In the...
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Kerala's response to the Covid-19 pandemic: with Dr B. Ekbal, Member, Kerala State Planning Board
The situation related to the covid-19 pandemic continuous to be worrisome across India. But one Indian State, Kerala, appears to have attracted considerable media attention for its response to the pandemic. It had an quick response strategy; it introduced mass testing early enough; it had very...
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STRUGGLES OF DAIRY FARMERS: Podcast with Dr Ajit Navale, All India Kisan Sabha, Maharashtra, India
I am an economist based in Mumbai, India. In this podcast series, I intend to have freewheeling conversations with friends and experts in multiple fields. In this episode, we speak to Dr Ajit Navale, the Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha, India's largest farmer's organisation, on the…
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How many episodes does Chayakkada Chats have?
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In this podcast series, I intend to have freewheeling conversations with friends and experts in multiple fields.
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Chayakkada Chats is created and hosted by R Ramakumar.
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